Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport

CDG LFPG  Paris, France

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CDG at a glance

  • What it is: Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport is one of the world's busiest airports serving Paris, France.
  • Codes: CDG on your ticket, LFPG on the radar.
  • How busy: the reference profile lists about 70.3 million annual passengers across 4 runways.
  • Main airline: Air France bases aircraft here, along with 2 other carriers.
  • Right now: 17 aircraft are within 55 km, shown live on the map above.
  • Local time zone: Europe/Paris (UTC+2), so every time shown for CDG is local rather than UTC.

Aircraft observed near CDG

17 aircraft are within 55 km of CDG right now. This is live ADS-B traffic, not a published timetable: aircraft are classified by what they are physically doing - Climbing out, on approach, or holding at cruise overhead. For gate numbers and scheduled times, check with CDG directly or your airline.

Departing now

FlightOperatorRouteStatusAltitudeSpeed
SWT5CE — route not published on stand or taxiing — 8 kts
TAY4RQ — route not published on stand or taxiing — 4 kts
TVF27SZ — route not published on stand or taxiing — 1 kts
TVF198X — route not published on stand or taxiing — 4 kts
TVX1 — route not published on stand or taxiing — 30 kts
FLYCO1 — route not published on stand or taxiing — 25 kts
NET6 — route not published on stand or taxiing — —
AFR1390 Air France route not published climbing out 11,650 ft 296 kts

Arriving now

FlightOperatorRouteStatusAltitudeSpeed
VRE176 — route not published on approach 825 ft 139 kts
LHX11M — route not published on approach 3,425 ft 187 kts
EJU38QA — route not published on approach 2,925 ft 168 kts
AFR81RE Air France route not published on approach 12,425 ft 357 kts
ITY332 — route not published on approach 4,100 ft 237 kts

Overhead and in the area

FlightOperatorRouteStatusAltitudeSpeed
GEC8264 — route not published in the area 29,000 ft 447 kts
RYR81MN Ryanair route not published in the area 38,000 ft 523 kts
EZY46PZ easyJet route not published in the area 36,050 ft 422 kts
BAW593K British Airways route not published in the area 38,000 ft 415 kts
70.3M
Annual passengers (reference)
4
Runways
3
Terminals
392 ft
Field elevation

About CDG

France's flagship airport and the home base of Air France, ranked second in Europe by passengers behind Heathrow. Its futuristic Terminal 1 'camembert' design is an icon of 1970s architecture. CDG is also Europe's leading cargo airport, anchored by a large FedEx hub.

Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport opened on March 8, 1974 at Roissy-en-France, northeast of Paris, conceived in the 1960s as a grand national project to give France an airport worthy of the jet age. Architect Paul Andreu designed the radical circular Terminal 1, a concrete drum threaded with plexiglass travel tubes that remains one of aviation's most distinctive buildings. The airport was named for General Charles de Gaulle, leader of Free France and founder of the Fifth Republic.

Terminal 2 grew in stages from 1982 onward as the sprawling home of Air France, its lettered halls 2A through 2G eventually stretching for kilometers, joined by the low-cost Terminal 3. A section of Terminal 2E's roof collapsed in 2004 shortly after opening, killing four people, and was rebuilt.

CDG became a global crossroads: Concorde flew from here, FedEx built its principal European hub on the airfield. The TGV station beneath Terminal 2 pioneered air-rail integration. Iranian exile Mehran Karimi Nasseri famously lived in Terminal 1 for 18 years, inspiring the film "The Terminal." Today CDG is continental Europe's busiest airport, hub of Air France-KLM's southern arm, handling more than 70 million passengers annually.

How CDG operates today

Charles de Gaulle operates four parallel runways in two widely separated doublets, flown in segregated mode with outer runways for landings and inner for takeoffs, giving high capacity across a vast 32-square-kilometer site. Air France concentrates its global hub at Terminal 2, running coordinated banks with SkyTeam partners, while Star and oneworld carriers use Terminal 1 and low-cost airlines Terminal 3.

The CDGVAL automated shuttle links terminals and parking. CDG is also Europe's leading cargo airport by tonnage in many years, anchored by FedEx's biggest hub outside the United States. The TGV station beneath Terminal 2 lets high-speed trains substitute for short-haul feeder flights.

Top routes from CDG

DestinationMain airlinesWhy it matters
New York (JFK) Air France, Delta The premier French transatlantic route and a pillar of the Air France-Delta joint venture.
Dubai (DXB) Emirates, Air France A heavyweight Gulf corridor served by A380s.
Rome (FCO) Air France, ITA Airways, Vueling A dense European capital pair mixing business, tourism, and hub feed.
Barcelona (BCN) Air France, Vueling, easyJet One of the busiest short-haul international routes from Paris.
Montreal (YUL) Air France, Air Canada The main air bridge of the Francophone world across the Atlantic.

Facts about CDG

  • Mehran Karimi Nasseri lived in Terminal 1 for 18 years, inspiring the Steven Spielberg film "The Terminal."
  • FedEx's hub at CDG is the company's largest outside the United States.
  • The airport covers about 32 square kilometers, one of the largest airport footprints in Europe.
  • Concorde operated scheduled supersonic flights from CDG to New York until 2003.

Plane spotting at CDG

Roads and mounds around the Roissypole area and the runway 09/27 doublets are used by local spotters, and hotels like those at Roissypole offer room views of Air France's fleet plus a constant international widebody parade. New to spotting? Start with our aircraft identification guide and the world's best spotting airports.

IATA / ICAO
CDG / LFPG
Location
Paris, France 49.010, 2.548
Time zone
Europe/Paris
Opened
1974
Hub for
Air France
Website
www.parisaeroport.fr

Airlines hubbed at CDG

AF · AFR Air France France U2 · EZY easyJet United Kingdom FX · FDX FedEx Express United States

Tracked flights using CDG

Selected scheduled services whose curated route starts, ends or stops at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport.

FlightRouteTypical aircraft
DL89 ATL → CDG Airbus A350-900Track DL89 →
B6033 BOS → CDG Airbus A321LRTrack B6033 →
AC870 YUL → CDG Boeing 777-300ERTrack AC870 →
AM3 MEX → CDG Boeing 787-9Track AM3 →
AF6 CDG → JFK Boeing 777-300ERTrack AF6 →
AF276 CDG → HND Airbus A350-900Track AF276 →
AF454 CDG → GRU Boeing 777-300ERTrack AF454 →
AF218 CDG → BOM Boeing 787-9Track AF218 →

Nearby and related airports

Geographically close airports and useful alternatives in France.

CRL Brussels South Charleroi Airport Charleroi, Belgium BRU Brussels Airport Brussels, Belgium LGW London Gatwick Airport London, United Kingdom NCE Nice Cote d'Azur Airport Nice, France

More airports and guides connected to CDG

Most of the tails you see here belong to Air France. It ranks among the world's busiest fields, which we compare in the busiest airports ranked. Nearby, Nice (NCE) serves the same country. The codes CDG and LFPG are explained in airport codes decoded.

Data sources and review

Reviewed 2026-07-29 by Flight-Tracker.net Editorial Team

Passenger, runway, terminal and hub figures are maintained as a reviewed reference snapshot, not a live operational record. Check the airport directly before travelling.

Read our airport data sourcing and review process, or inspect the machine-readable reference dataset.

Frequently asked questions about CDG

What is the airport code for Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport?

Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport uses the IATA code CDG on tickets and baggage tags, and the ICAO code LFPG in flight plans and on radar. The leading “L” in LFPG is the region marker: ICAO codes are grouped geographically, which is why airports near each other usually share their first letter or two while their IATA codes look unrelated.

How many runways does CDG have?

Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport operates 4 runways across 3 passenger terminals. The field sits at 392 ft above sea level.

How busy is CDG?

This reference profile lists roughly 70.3 million annual passengers for Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport. You can see aircraft observed departing, arriving and overhead on this page, taken from live ADS-B broadcasts.

Which airlines are based at CDG?

Air France, easyJet, FedEx Express treat CDG as a hub or major base. Many other carriers serve the airport without basing aircraft there.

How many terminals does CDG have?

This reference lists Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport with 3 passenger terminals. Check the airport or operating airline for the terminal assigned to a specific flight.

What time zone is CDG in?

Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport runs on Europe/Paris, currently UTC+2. Flight trackers work in UTC internally, so the seven-day history on our flight pages is stamped UTC while the boards on this page are in CDG local time - worth remembering when the two disagree by a whole calendar day.

Can I track flights at CDG live?

Yes. The map on this page shows every aircraft broadcasting its position within about 55 km of Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, and there are 17 in range as this page loaded. The boards split them into departures, arrivals and traffic passing overhead, all timed in Europe/Paris.